Accepting Quote by Lucille Clifton

Sometimes you have a poem that you really want to write and it never happens.

— C. K. Williams

“A poem isn't a good poem, until you need it.”

— J. David Gray

When clever people ask me where I get a poem, I despair.

— Robert Frost

Don't call my lyrics poetry. It's an insult to real poets.

— Bernie Taupin

I never deny poems when they come; whatever I am doing, whatever I am writing, I lay it aside and attend to the arriving…

— Amy Lowell

I don't call myself a poet, because I don't like the word.

— Bob Dylan

And the poem, I think, is only your voice speaking.

— Virginia Woolf

Poetry connects you to yourself, to the self that doesn't know how to talk or negotiate.

— Rita Dove

A poem is like a child; at some point we have to let it go and trust that it will make its own way…

— Dorianne Laux

You have no idea how poet you are until you meet love.

— Anonymous

I don't write poems. I don't give flowers to girls... yet.

— Rico Rodriguez

A poem doesn’t come out and tell you what it has to say. It circles back on itself, eating its own tail and making…

— Franny Billingsley